Bálint Végh - Baritone
Bálint Végh is a Hungarian baritone based in Maastricht, Netherlands. His open-minded and explorative approach to music makes him one of the most interesting musical personalities of his generation. He is ready to sing all kinds of repertory from Rennaissance choir music through bel canto operas to romantic Lieder and atonal 20th century compositions for solo voice.
He is comfortable on stage also as an opera singer and a concert singer. In operatic repertory he performed Mozart and Donizetti roles, such as Bartolo and Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro in the Amadeus Festival of Bjelovar and with the Lyric Theather of Crete, and Malatesta in Don Pasquale as part of a stage project with the University of Pécs in the Kodály Center of Pécs. He participated in several performances of oratorical compositions as a soloist, such as the Misa criolla by Ariel Ramirez and soloist in the Musikalisches Exequien, and the Weihnachtshistorie by Heinrich Schütz. His intelligence and high knowledge of languages gives him a big potential in the Lied repertory too.
He also has numerous choir experience. He was active for a long time as a member of the Tutti Cantabile chamber choir based in Budapest. He has sung in the University Choir of Pécs with whom he participated in two successful tours in the USA and in China where he sang also in solo. He was member for several productions of the Festival Choir of the Pannon Philharmonics and of the National Theater of Pécs. He performed with them pieces like Die Schöpfung of Joseph Haydn, Liebeslieder Waltzer of Johannes Brahms and La Bohème of Giacomo Puccini.
He worked on masterclasses with renowned teachers such as Andrea Rost, Kriszitán Cser, Alain Buet, István Horváth, Ágnes Kovács and István Kovácsházi. He is a regular visitor of the masterclasses of the Early Music Days of Vác, one of the biggest early music festivals of Hungary where he received coachings on German and French baroque music from György Vashegyi, Fabien Armengoud and Benoît Dratwicki. He was the member of the Rost Andrea Opera Academy where he received personal coachings on the role of Papageno from the world famous Hungarian lyrical soprano.
He started his singing studies in Hungary with the early music specialist Éva Lax and then pursued the perfectioning of his vocal technique with Katalin Károlyi at the Music Faculty of the University of Pécs. Now he is studying with Axel Eveaert in the Conservatorium Maastricht.
His passion for music and curiosity bring him to new and new challenges that he would like to share with his audiences.